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Gone

Where’d you go?
I miss you so
Seems like it’s been forever
Since you been gone

I can’t breathe for the first time
I can’t hold up my head
A part of me is still alive,

Months Spent Preparing To Forget

We've worked so hard on something that doesn't really matter.

A Mute Tree

A Mute Tree
In the mid noon of hot summer,
scratching heat making man to swelter,
stands, the tree Gulmohar
laden with beautiful flower
gazing at the sun in meditating posture

Powder, Perfume, Hormones

Neck a smooth, cylindrical mold
As sheathe with fibers carefully rolled
Pale, satin sheen artfully scrolled
Grace on soft, silky strands doled
In light, silted hologram to behold

Silent Ophiophagus

haibun

  Untitled

'Untitled', written on 15 May 2013

  Memories Cost More

I get it now

when I was a kid
my Mum used to spoil me
- still does!
I’m “her baby”
the youngest of four

but it wasn’t
extravagance
with which
she would spoil me

The Man in a Hat

There was a man, he had a hat,
The hat was white, well fancy that!

Poem

If we stand in her way

IT WAS MORE THAN THAT

It wasn’t the sugar sweet
Words of love
From your mouth

Please don't hate me

Please don't hate me
although I'm secretly a man who loves to be hated.
please don't call me a yellow nigger
unless you really mean it.

I can't hate you either,

Such Nice People...Them Tax Collectors! (I.P.)

I'm thinking of employing Damn, Blast and Sodit because I need to swear!

SUNFLOWER

attraction

A Comedy for Corpses

An unconventional and often silly poem about death and dying.

Detour

Road construction ahead. Another pending relationship. Potentially harmless. A fly stuck to the windshield. Its smashed body meaning as much as the life it once had.

Leaves

A display of warmth and blush would once make its way down the tree.
Gracefully it left, like a final bow at the end of a play; so frail, yet, quite tender to the eyes of the admiring audience.

The Day Is A Child

If I could, I would sleep all day and wake in the brilliant night
Day expects too much
Day expects grass to be green; the sky to be blue

r-r-release

Did the moon kiss your shaking phalanges?

Isle

Seeking darkness
To end the light,
To end the day and start the night.

The Heart

Our BS